He told me that his firm is seeing a big swing in the types of lawsuits people are bringing against one another.  The days of business divorces (one partner suing another over the breakup of a business) and law suits based on principal is pretty much over for now.  The way it used to be would be one person saying “I don’t care if I burn the whole company down to prove to you (partner) that I am right” is over.  Now the two parties will just sort out their differences on their own.

What is, I guess, not surprising is that larger firms are more so looking at suing if it makes good fiscal sense.  “Will it cost us $50,000 to sue some one to make back $50,000.01?  Let’s do it.”  My friend told me that that scenario would never have happened when times are good because the same company would have spent their time and effort on something more important.